How David Rogers started their logo design journey

Company name

Sharp Dome

Overview

As mentioned in the project summary, we need a logo to help create a brand identity for a new internet marketing company called Sharp Dome. The company provides a range of internet marketing consulting services. Our specialty is helping companies bring new customers to their business by using the many technologies of the internet.

The logo for Sharp Dome needs to convey an image that is professional, knowledgeable, experienced, and trustworthy. It should also give a feeling of being modern, state of the art, and using the latest methods, technologies and techniques. It should be clean, uncluttered, and simple in appearance, without being formal or stuffy.

The Meaning of Sharp Dome:

The "dome" in Sharp Dome was inspired by Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California. The word dome is also slang for a person's head, or brain.

The "sharp" in Sharp Dome was meant to be like a knife, as an efficient tool to cut through difficult competition. It was also meant to convey a company that is smart, intelligent, and knowledgeable.

A winning logo design can employ these concepts in some form, but does not need to do so. Feel free to get creative!

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

Customers are small and medium sized business owners and/or the people/team responsible for their web site development or general marketing activities. The customers are principally located in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.

Design Style:

We need a professional looking logo that appeals to the customers groups identified above. The logo must work in both large and small formats, both in color and black and white, and on mediums as diverse as a business card, a web page, an email newsletter, a power point presentation, a printed proposal, etc. A future contest will be run for these additional items.

Color Palette:

We envision a design using the colors blue, black, gray, and white, perhaps taking inspiration from the gray granite of Half Dome and the white clouds seen against a deep blue sky seen in many photos.

The use of these color suggestions is not a requirement. Feel free to use your imagination!

Requirements

Contest Notes:

We will give feedback to all entries with 4 and 5 star ratings. We are not interested in entries that we rate with 3 stars or less.

Please, original designs only. NO CLIP ART.

Technical Specifications:

We need to receive your design in the following formats:

(1) Adobe Illustrator print file format (.ai using CMYK), both full color and black and white
(2) web file format (.jpg), both full color and black and white
(3) layered Adobe Photoshop format (.psd using RGB), both full color and black and white

Questions/Comments:

If you have any questions or feedback for us please leave a comment in the discussion thread. We will be checking the site on a regular basis while the contest is happening.

Good luck on the contest. We look forward to seeing your work!

Future Opportunities:

Even if you don't win this contest we are still interested in quality designers for future projects. We will exchange contact information with 4 and 5 star entrants for the potential to work on future projects.